Emerging Technologies
Elon Musk wants to send a million people to Mars
Tech billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with a million peoplein an effort to protect humanity from certain doom.
Ali Sundermier is a science reporter at Business Insider. Before joining Business Insider she interned at Fermilab and has contributed stories to Symmetry and NASA. She holds a Master of Science in Journalism from Stony Brook University.
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These 63 ancient cosmic objects could reveal one of astronomy's great mysteries
In the aftermath of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago, when the hot-flowing soup of the universe finally started to cool, the cosmos were a cold, dark place. There were no galaxies ...
A group of citizen scientists have cracked a 300 year old mystery
If you happened to be in London on May 3, 1715, a few minutes of your day would have been shrouded in darkness as the moon passed between Earth and the sun.
Emerging Technologies
A scientist might have just provided evidence for one of Stephen Hawking's most famous theories
Jeff Steinhauer, a physicist at Technion University in Israel, has created an acoustic black hole and observed particles slipping out of its grasp, providing the strongest evidence to dat...
Emerging Technologies
5000 robots are being assembled to look billions of years back in time
An army of 5,000 tiny robots has been given a giant mission.
Energy Transition
Chernobyl could be turned into a solar energy farm
The site of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters might be on the verge of getting a makeover: The Ukrainian government has announced a plan to transform the radioactive wasteland of...
Fourth Industrial Revolution
NASA is getting ready to send a spacecraft closer to the sun than ever before
NASA is one step closer in its mission to “touch” the sun. Last week, it announced that the Solar Probe Plus mission had passed a huge milestone, keeping it on track for a 2018 launch.
5 of Einstein's thought experiments that changed science
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, forever changed the landscape of science by introducing revolutionary concepts that shook our understanding of the physical...
Arts and Culture
These 'irrelevant' notes from Da Vinci show his most important discovery
Until now, art historians dismissed some doodles in Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks as "irrelevant."
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Astronomers say we could be just 10 years away from finding alien life
On May 2, an international team of astronomers announced that they had discovered three Earth-sized exoplanets, all orbiting the same star (TRAPPIST-1) just 40 light-years from us.
Emerging Technologies
Physicists have just done something they thought impossible
Until recently, scientists didn't think it could be done. They thought the fundamental laws of physics would forbid it. But a persistent group of scientists at the University of Warsaw ha...
Fourth Industrial Revolution
6 man-made structures visible from space
Earth is a big place. And over the past several millennia, humans have filled it with big, magnificent things, such as massive pyramids, giant walls, sprawling cities, and much more.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
The dinosaurs weren't the only species destroyed by the asteroid
The prehistoric asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs nearly extinguished mammals as well.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Scientists found something unexpected on Mars – and it could require us to rethink the planet’s history
Scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center found something very unexpected in a Martian crater.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
This could be the world's first computer and it's 2,100 years old
We are closer than ever to deciphering what has been called the world's first computer. The device, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, has been puzzling scientists for more than a centur...